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Report Card: Rand Paul "Tea Party Budget" = Best in Class

To help Senators and activists prepare for this week's Senate votes on competing budget plans, FreedomWorks has prepared a handy cheat sheet.

We've done the research for you, carefully reviewing and "grading" each plan based on numerous important criteria.

For example, you can use this one-pager to see how quickly the various budget proposals will take to achieve balance.

Tea-party-aligned Senators Pat Toomey would balance in 7 years, for example; while Mike Lee's would balance in 5 years, Rand Paul's in 5 years, and the House-passed Ryan budget in a mere 26 years -- or only 10, depending on your economic growth-rate assumption. Note the high grades earned by President Obama and Senator Harry Reid! :)

(Click on link image above, or the link below, for a full-size PDF copy of the chart.)

We first published this report card on March 26, 2012, prior to House consideration of the budget.

We have kept it up to date as new plans have been unveiled, most recently Sen. Mike Lee's plan (a.k.a. the Heritage Foundation "Saving the American Dream" budget).

The House passed the Ryan budget on March 29, 2012.

To date, the Senate has failed to pass a budget for more than three years running.

Thanks to FreedomWorks research intern Daniel Anderson for helpfully compiling this handy chart.

harry reid no way.he will never bring a bugest up or even do one. paul ryan ok but do not like his ideas that much. I want senator Rand paul to bring his bugest up on the senate floor.I do not care what harry reid says. he is done. our president bugest plan is no good. he is done.

It's the messaging, stupid.Much has been made since the past election cycle regarding the GOP's inability to reach out to voters. While doing so, many are focusing on the voter themselves, or as Rush Limbaugh refers to them - the low-information voter.

While Americans wait ever-anxiously for our elected leaders to hammer out a solution to the so-called fiscal cliff, business leaders and economic analysts have already watched the country fall off what could only be described as a cliff of its own. The Obama administration has sent the nation plummeting into a sea of anti-business, anti-growth red tape over the last few years, but even as the economy struggles to regain any traction, the White House is intending to accelerate the rate of descent.Welcome to the 'regulatory cliff'.

The time for politics has passed, or so you would think.Throughout his campaign, President Obama promised to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline after the election was over. Nearly six weeks later however, despite facts that reveal the project to be a bipartisan, pro-energy, pro-growth pursuit, the President has still failed to address the issue.

During his acceptance speech, a freshly re-elected President Obama spoke of a message that he received from the American people, a message to "focus on your jobs" and to tackle the challenge of "freeing ourselves from foreign oil".

Over the last couple of years, Paul Krugman and The New York Times have championed a bigger stimulus, which equals more government deficits and debt. Recently, another New York Times scribe, Nicholas Kristof, claims Romney's economic plan is equal to the austerity plan of many European counties, particularly Germany and England.

Wednesday, in the critical battleground state of Ohio, Paul Ryan spoke about his plan for the 46 million Americans who live in poverty saying that "in this war on poverty, poverty is winning.” With one in six Americans living in poverty, Ryan said that he and Mitt Romney would help them join (or rejoin) the middle class. "Many of those living in poverty today were in the middle class just a few years ago.

In the aftermath of the first Presidential debate last week, I wrote that it was an unmitigated success for Republican challenger Mitt Romney. While it was clear that it was a thorough tactical defeat that has vaulted Romney in the polls and placed Obama permanently on defense for the remainder of the campaign, there was a notable lack of focus on debt reduction.

There's little question that the whole of America has suffered in the last four years at the hands of the President's one-track energy policies. While Mitt Romney has laid out a plan for American energy independence by the year 2020, the Obama energy policy seems to be shackled by tunnel vision, focused solely on the massive outpouring of taxpayer resources to unproven alternative energy companies.

Last night during an interview for 60 Minutes, President Obama made the false declaration that "I haven't raised taxes." But recent news coming out of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) begs to differ, and a majority of proof that the President's statement is patently false comes from his signature legislation - Obamacare.During his interview, Obama blamed rhetoric and lies for the notion that he has raised taxes.